Word: cops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many of them from Impact House, a federally funded poverty agency-gathered beneath the neon sign of a liquor store and began aping Brown's agitational frenzy. Soon rocks and bottles were smashing store and car windows; a policeman was shot in the arm by a sniper; another cop blasted a 19-year-old Negro car thief, killing him. Fire bombs popped, and guttering flames silhouetted the scurrying shapes of looters carrying liquor, meat, window fans, cosmetics, even a drugstore cash register. For three days the violence flared and sputtered. Final tolls: nearly 100 fires, 49 arrests, 13 injuries...
...HEAT OF THE NIGHT. A Negro policeman from Philadelphia (Sidney Poitier) is falsely arrested for murder in a Mississippi backwater town by the local police chief (Rod Steiger), who eventually discovers that a good cop is a good cop, regardless of color...
Though the biggest Losers will be those who pay to see the film, old movie buffs may want to get a glimpse of Jane Russell, who appears to have been thickened by the picture, and to hear one of the classic cliches in cinema history articulated by a cowardly cop: "Where did we go wrong?" From the beginning, baby...
...that ran in various national publications was right in step with current events. To illustrate Black Chicago, a history of the city's Negro ghetto from 1890 to 1920, a cop was shown clubbing a group of Negroes. Just the thing to cause a concerned citizen to rush right out and buy the book. But wait a minute. Wasn't that an unusual cap the policeman was wearing? The Chicago police department thought so. None of their men wore it. Chicago Daily News Columnist Virginia Kay was also puzzled. She did some checking and printed the results...
...taught to steal from those in authority as a matter of patriotic duty in the chaotic wartime years of Japanese occupation, and the habit has lingered on. Kickbacks, voting-place vandalism, judge buying and customhouse connivance are still the fashion. At a busy Manila intersection, a white-uniformed traffic cop waves through the traffic. As each passenger-laden taxi passes by, a hand shoots out and deftly deposits something in the cop's cupped fist. "Corruption?" blurts an astonished cab driver. "He needs it for his family. And if I didn't give him 50 centavos once...